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Updated: May 26, 2025
But the gods have eternity at their disposal, and their mills are run by unerring, self-administering laws, while the courts are sometimes harassed with a heavy docket that must be got through with and laws are made and administered by erring mortals. When they are overcrowded, there is inevitably, now and then, a victim.
"Then," said I, "as you have mutilated the note, and refuse to give me change; and as you also refuse to admit me to the Governor, I will swear the debt of 1000l. against the Governor and Company of the Bank of England; and if there is an independent attorney in London, I will instantly strike a docket against them.
Once, on a single morning, he hanged an even half-dozen, these being the chief fruitage of a busy term of the Federal court down in the Indian country where the combination of a crowded docket, an energetic young district attorney with political ambitions, and a businesslike presiding judge had produced what all unprejudiced and fair-minded persons agreed were marvellous results, highly beneficial to the moral atmosphere of the territory and calculated to make potential evil-doers stop and think.
In the docket for the May term of court, the divorce proceedings between Esther and Jack Oxenford would come up for a hearing at Oakville on the seventh of the month. Hunter was anxious, if possible, to have all his friends present at the trial.
Reverdy drew rein and faced the Squire with a solemnity presently yielding to his natural desire to grin at any form of joke, and his belief that when the Squire indulged such flagrant irreverence as this he must be joking. Yet he answered evasively: "You hearn't he says now he hain't never go'n to die?" "No. But I'm not surprised to hear it; about the next thing on the docket.
There was the entail, again, which was much controverted. In short, there was no want of talk, back and forward; and some of our wise-acres took up a strong opinion. I remained in suspense, as became one of my cloth; but Mr. Mackellar's docket here has finally opened my eyes. I do not think, Mr. Mackellar, that you and I will give him that much rope."
"I understand enough," said Jacqueline, in a very low voice, and kissed her cousin upon the brow. Rand closed the heavy ledger. "It is all straight," he said. "It's as straight as if 'twas a winding-up forever," answered Tom. "Are you going home now?" "Yes." "There's almost nothing on the docket. I've seen no such general clearance since you began to practise and took me in.
So, on the Friday, when the case was reached on Judge MacFarlane's docket but really, it is worth our while to be present in the Gaston court-room to see and hear what befalls. When the Varnum case was called, Hunnicott promptly moved for a third continuance, in accordance with his instructions.
In 1801 there were only ten cases on the docket, and for some years the average annual number of cases was twenty-four; but in later years the number rapidly increased.
And more than that, when he was going away he took out three sovereigns and gave them to the blacksmith, and he looked at one of the little chaps, and he said 'That one will be in command of the whole of England. 'Oh, that cannot be, said the blacksmith, 'where I am poor and have not the means to do anything for him. 'It will be as I tell you, said he, 'and write me out now a docket, he said, 'that if ever that youngster will come to command Ireland, he will give me a free leg. So the docket was made out, and he brought it away with him.
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